PC System Requirements speculation

I've got an older processor (I5 3570k, unlocked, 3.4 so I can coax it over 4.0) and a MSI GTX 970 and I ran DAI and Witcher 3 (with the hair thingy on) on Ultra on that rig so I am not too worried about not at least getting HIGH on MEA. Should I be worried?

Quad-core is sufficient.

I don't know a single game that actually uses more than 4 cores.

The rest of the specs seem very fair though.

I'm gonna say...

Minimum (1080p,low settings 30-45fps)- GTX 760 or AMD equivalent, so like a 7950, 8 GB RAM, quad core CPU.

Recommended (1080p, high settings 45-60 fps- GTX 970/ AMD 290x, 16 GB RAM, hexicore CPU.

Optimum (4K, ultra 30-60 fps)- GTX 1070/ AMD 480, 16-24 GB RAM, newish hexicore CPU.

I think to run this game at 4K Ultra and get 60fps you'll need at least a GTX 1080. As BF1 needs that to run at 4K and get 60. Same engine as Andromeda.

this game will need at least 4Gb of vram (gtx 970 has 3,5)

I couldn't resist and bought 1080 today lol. The 1080ti is probably going to cost too much for my pockets anyway 
I'm going to wait for new monitors to come out, though. I wanted to get an Asus PG279Q, but first I want to see if it will come out a good 1440p 144hz wiht G-sync AND HDR. I'd love to get a HDR monitor omg, but I guess 1080 isn't ready for 4K. So pls make HDR 2k g-sync 1440p monitors a thing. 

There will likely never be a 2K-only HDR monitor as there is little incentive to make one. For better or worse, manufacturers have tied HDR to 4K displays. Despite HDR being less about resolution and more about the screen panels, there is little incentive to make a 2K-only display when 4K is the better marketing buzzword.

This is especially true for G-Sync monitors. Nvidia just announced the first HDR G-Sync monitors and they're 4K displays.

wccftech.com/g-sync-hdr-monitors-available-q2-2017/

My question is, do you all who play on PC experience all these horror stories I hear about games on PC (bad ports)? Like tons of bugs, not receiving patches, etc.

Because this is the first time I'm considering buying a game on PC first at launch. (I use to be a strictly console gamer, but last year I made a pretty powerful pc and want to use it for the shinies (read, pretty graphics) with ME:A)

I don't want to run into problems of the game breaking variety when the game releases. Just wanna play it with no problems as I usually do.


Maybe I'll just get it for both PC and Console on release day. lol

After over 20 years of PC gaming, I think I can give a somewhat qualified opinion.



Some of the horror stories are true, and they all have different reasons, and some are completely exaggerated.



Once in a great while, you get a truly awful port like Batman: Arkham Knight. The PC version was apparently farmed out to some external studio who did such a crappy job that Steam removed the game from its store for months until the game was in a playable state.



Also once in a great while, you get a complete dick move like Watchdogs, where PC graphics options were intentionally disabled to force console parity.



However, many of the "average" bad ports seem to be at least partly caused by the rigs they're running on, because I rarely have any problems even with games that are supposedly poor ports or poor original software. I know my rig and I keep my OS and drivers clean and up to date, and stuff generally runs as smooth as an elven baby arse.



And on the bright side, some ports are really good! Nixxes is a Dutch company that specializes in PC ports, and they generally produce good, solid stuff, often with additional features like benchmark tests to help you find those sweet optimal settings.



And sometimes you may have to wait longer for the PC version because the devs actually add features and brush up the graphics to produce an overall superior port, like GTA V.

The range of possible hardware combinations is so wide that it's hard to give a clear-cut answer to that question -- that same 'breadth' also accounts for the difficulty of producing a 'PC version' that will run optimally on all hardware.

Some disconnected thoughts:

Upon launch, performance is abysmal (low FP, glitches, crashes) for pretty much everyone save a lucky few. 'Luck' here is not a function of having stronger hardware.
Some developers are quick to produce patches (the first couple of days) which fix the worst crashes. CDPR did a pretty good job with TW3 in that regard. For their games it's 'smooth sailing' after that point.
Some developers are a lot slower; but over the space of a few months their games become playable. Ubisoft is like this.
Some developers outsource PC porting to houses that don't even have the requisite expertise. Sometimes they flat out refuse to patch a title with game-breaking bugs (Arkham Origins). The PC port of Arkham Knight had missing features upon release, in addition to being broken. They pulled it from sale; then took several months to 'fix' it -- up to a degree. The planned Linux port got cancelled in all that chaos.
Rockstar had an awful reputation with respect to PC ports; GTA IV was a disaster that barely got fixed. GTA V on the other hand, was a very well optimized port.

Getting a game on release on PC is pretty much a gamble, really. It makes sense to wait a few weeks, actually, just to see what early adopters are experiencing, and whether patches are being released.
On the other hand, I've also had some first hand experience during my short time as a PS4 owner, that consoles aren't terribly different nowadays, with respect to patches. I remember AC Unity not becoming playable on the PS4, before several large patches were out.

Here is a list of the monitors that were announced at CES 2017: 

www.144hzmonitors.com/other/ces-2017-all-revealed-monitors/

You can find some 1440p monitors that support HDR. But I agree about G-sync: it might not be avaible on 1440p HDR monitors. Not for now, at least. And this makes me sad  

YES! I made the move from console to PC when DAI came out. I also bought Skyrim. Recently I bought Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. And my conclusion is that it depends on the game/developer.

Day 1 for DAI I couldn't play it because I needed a driver update. Once the driver donwloaded, I started making my character. Half an hour into the CC the game crashed. This was to be a recurring theme for the next few months. The game crashed, froze, had strange bugs, etc. Now that it has been patched out the wazoo (something like 12 patches??) it runs more smoothly, though it still crashes to desktop from time to time. Skyrim also occasionally freezes or crashes, but not very often. DD:DA is rock solid. 

If you have console you experience NONE of this. IMO the only reason to have PC is mods. Otherwise I would have bought an xbox one... so much cheaper, and NO crashing, no freezing, no weird bugs. 

EDIT: You also don't have to worry about updating your console. Not a big deal if you're PC savvy (as you seem to be) but for me it's a constant headache. I know nothing about the interior guts of a PC. It's nerve-wracking and makes me feel like I wasted my money buying something that has to be constantly upgraded.